OK, I am not Asian, I don't understand Asian culture. I don't know what makes them tick or what scares them. Perhaps if I did, I would of liked this movie. Or at least it would of made sense to me. A friend once told me that the Japanese people associate ghosts with water. If a Japanese horror movie does not have water, it will not scare them at all. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, its only one piece of the puzzle. How do you explain a needlessly over complicated plot? (Which is normal for Japanese horror movies, at least from my perspective.) Horrifying scenes that are never explained? The Japanese obsession with spooky looking faces and contorted bodies. Endings that make no sense at all. This movie seemed like a bunch of scary scenes thrown together, with little or no care whether it made sense or not. I could go on, but like I said before, if I was Asian maybe I would like this movie. But at the moment I just don't get it.
Review of Dead Waves
